Data Engineer Contracts in Central London

Data Engineer
London > Central London

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Central London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 75 75
Rank change year-on-year +5 0 +20
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 60 60 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 3.00% 2.45% 2.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.24% 2.58% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 48 77
10th Percentile £300 £404 £438
25th Percentile £449 £459 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £570
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -10.09% -0.87%
75th Percentile £588 £628 £675
90th Percentile £653 £724 £755
London median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £48.50 -
London median hourly rate £65.00 £51.75 £64.00
% change year-on-year +25.60% -19.14% +24.27%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Central London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Central London with a recognized job title 1,852 2,329 3,676
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 95.22% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 1,658 2,523
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £454 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
75th Percentile £675 £682 £725
90th Percentile £775 £794 £813
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 32 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.95 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £21.81 £18.93
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.76% -26.34% -6.04%
75th Percentile £35.00 £27.81 £58.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £43.38 £86.65
London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings that featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Central London

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in Central London

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in Central London

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in Central London

Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +13 57 £500 - 18
West End of London -4 2 £300 - 4
Data Engineer
London

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Central London region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 42 (70.00%) Python
2 39 (65.00%) SQL
3 27 (45.00%) Azure
4 26 (43.33%) Data Pipeline
5 25 (41.67%) ETL
6 23 (38.33%) Data Engineering
7 22 (36.67%) AWS
8 19 (31.67%) Data Quality
9 18 (30.00%) Data Modelling
10 16 (26.67%) Analytics
11 14 (23.33%) Finance
11 14 (23.33%) Databricks
11 14 (23.33%) Analytical Skills
12 12 (20.00%) DevOps
12 12 (20.00%) Apache Spark
12 12 (20.00%) Power BI
12 12 (20.00%) CI/CD
12 12 (20.00%) PySpark
12 12 (20.00%) Power Platform
12 12 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
12 12 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
12 12 (20.00%) Data Governance
12 12 (20.00%) Security Cleared
13 11 (18.33%) Decision-Making
14 10 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
14 10 (16.67%) Scala
14 10 (16.67%) Kafka
15 9 (15.00%) Data Integration
15 9 (15.00%) SC Cleared
15 9 (15.00%) Apache

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 9 (15.00%) Apache
3 8 (13.33%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (6.67%) Jupyter
5 2 (3.33%) Luigi
6 1 (1.67%) Anypoint
6 1 (1.67%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (1.67%) Mule
6 1 (1.67%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (5.00%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 27 (45.00%) Azure
2 22 (36.67%) AWS
3 12 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 9 (15.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (11.67%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (10.00%) dbt
6 6 (10.00%) Serverless
7 5 (8.33%) Amazon S3
7 5 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (8.33%) GCP
7 5 (8.33%) Snowflake
8 4 (6.67%) GitHub
9 3 (5.00%) Fivetran
9 3 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (3.33%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (3.33%) Collibra
10 2 (3.33%) Google Analytics
10 2 (3.33%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.67%) SSH
2 2 (3.33%) Structured Cabling
2 2 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 12 (20.00%) Power BI
2 8 (13.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (13.33%) Big Data
2 8 (13.33%) Data Lake
2 8 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 8 (13.33%) Relational Database
3 7 (11.67%) Delta Lake
3 7 (11.67%) Metadata
4 6 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
4 6 (10.00%) Apache Hive
4 6 (10.00%) SQL Server
5 5 (8.33%) Tableau
6 4 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (6.67%) SAP Data Services
6 4 (6.67%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (5.00%) OLAP
7 3 (5.00%) OLTP
7 3 (5.00%) SAP BW
7 3 (5.00%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (10.00%) Git
2 4 (6.67%) JIRA
2 4 (6.67%) RStudio
3 1 (1.67%) Postman
3 1 (1.67%) Selenium
3 1 (1.67%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.67%) Terragrunt
General
1 14 (23.33%) Analytical Skills
1 14 (23.33%) Finance
2 9 (15.00%) Public Sector
2 9 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (13.33%) Banking
4 6 (10.00%) Investment Banking
5 5 (8.33%) Retail
6 3 (5.00%) Corporate Banking
6 3 (5.00%) Retail Banking
7 2 (3.33%) Police
8 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.67%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (20.00%) PySpark
2 10 (16.67%) Kafka
3 4 (6.67%) JSON
3 4 (6.67%) pydantic
3 4 (6.67%) REST
3 4 (6.67%) YAML
4 3 (5.00%) Web Services
5 2 (3.33%) .NET
5 2 (3.33%) pytest
6 1 (1.67%) Apache Avro
6 1 (1.67%) Apache Beam
6 1 (1.67%) FHIR
6 1 (1.67%) Pandas
6 1 (1.67%) Spring
6 1 (1.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.67%) Data Structures
1 4 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
1 4 (6.67%) Reference Data
2 1 (1.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (1.67%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.33%) Linux
2 1 (1.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (43.33%) Data Pipeline
2 25 (41.67%) ETL
3 23 (38.33%) Data Engineering
4 18 (30.00%) Data Modelling
5 16 (26.67%) Analytics
6 12 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
6 12 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 12 (20.00%) Data Governance
6 12 (20.00%) DevOps
7 11 (18.33%) Decision-Making
8 10 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (15.00%) Agile
9 9 (15.00%) Data Integration
10 8 (13.33%) Data Ingestion
10 8 (13.33%) Data Science
10 8 (13.33%) Data Security
10 8 (13.33%) Migration
11 6 (10.00%) Containerisation
11 6 (10.00%) Data Strategy
11 6 (10.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 42 (70.00%) Python
2 39 (65.00%) SQL
3 10 (16.67%) Scala
4 4 (6.67%) Bash
4 4 (6.67%) Java
5 2 (3.33%) SPARQL
5 2 (3.33%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.67%) C#
6 1 (1.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.67%) DataWeave
6 1 (1.67%) R
6 1 (1.67%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 12 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.33%) Degree
4 1 (1.67%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (31.67%) Data Quality
2 5 (8.33%) GDPR
3 3 (5.00%) QA
4 1 (1.67%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.67%) HIPAA
System Software
1 2 (3.33%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 7 (11.67%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.00%) Terraform
3 2 (3.33%) Grafana
3 2 (3.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (23.33%) Databricks
2 6 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.33%) SAP
4 4 (6.67%) Google
5 3 (5.00%) Informatica
6 1 (1.67%) GoldenSource
6 1 (1.67%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (1.67%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.67%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.67%) Salesforce